{"id":5787,"date":"2012-01-24T22:56:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T22:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2012-01-24T23:00:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T23:00:44","slug":"cardiff-beat-crystal-palace-on-penalties-the-carling-cup-final-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/cardiff-beat-crystal-palace-on-penalties-the-carling-cup-final-awaits\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff beat Crystal Palace on penalties &#8211; the Carling Cup final awaits!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/cardiff-palace-semi-final-carling-cup.jpg\" alt=\"Cardiff beat Crystal Palace on penalties - the Carling Cup final awaits!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve actually lost my voice from\u00a0shouting\u00a0at the mighty Bluebirds for so long tonight, such was the tension in this game.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/cardiff-city-vs-crystal-palace-carling-cup-semi-final-at-selhurst-road-10th-jan-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\"> away leg at Selhurst Park <\/a>was nerve-racking\u00a0enough\u00a0but watching this vital match was even worse &#8211; even though I was only bellowing at the TV screen this time.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although Cardiff\u00a0dominated\u00a0play and possession (61% vs 39%), hit the bar three ruddy times and had one cleared off the line, we just couldn&#8217;t score the second goal we needed to win the game outright.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/cardiff-palace-semi-final-carling-cup-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cardiff beat Crystal Palace on penalties - the Carling Cup final awaits!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So bring on the hideous, nail biting nightmare of the penalty shootout. Which &#8211; thank feck &#8211; we won, with goalie Tom Heaton being positively heroic.<\/p>\n<p>Bring on the Wembley final! Great result, lads! And hard luck to Palace: \u00a0you may have failed to record a single strike on goal for the entire 120 minutes, but you battled bravely.<\/p>\n<p>Bloooooooooooobirds!<\/p>\n<p>[Pic from<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/league_cup\/16589189.stm\" target=\"_blank\"> BBC report<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve actually lost my voice from\u00a0shouting\u00a0at the mighty Bluebirds for so long tonight, such was the tension in this game. The away leg at Selhurst Park was nerve-racking\u00a0enough\u00a0but watching this &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,7,198],"tags":[8,187,1192],"class_list":["post-5787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiff","category-football","category-wales-places","tag-cardiff-city","tag-ccfc","tag-football"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/cardiff-palace-semi-final-carling-cup.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1vl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5795,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions\/5795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}